Monday August 29 – 8.30-9.30 hrs – Aula Magna
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Peter TerwieschChief Technology
Officer
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Closing the loop: an industrialist’s perspective
on the present and future impact of control
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Abstract:
This lecture aims at characterizing both status quo and future
potentials of automatic control in industry. From the background of a
power and automation industry professional, industrial deployment of
advanced estimation, control and optimization methods is discussed
using practical examples.
As new impulses and challenges for control arise from neighboring
disciplines, interdependency and the need for collaborating with
neighboring disciplines is emphasized and a number of directions for
future work are outlined.
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Peter Terwiesch biosketch:
Peter Terwiesch is Chief Technology Officer of ABB Ltd, a
global
power and automation technology company with 117’000
employees
and operations in more than 100 countries. Prior to his current
appointment he was president of ABB Automation Ltd, Germany, at the
same time as global head of technology for ABB’s automation
business. Peter holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from ETH
Zurich, Switzerland, an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Germany, and is an alumnus of Harvard Business
School’s General Management Program. As a scientist, he has
contributed to a number of significant technology initiatives and has
also authored/co-authored numerous papers and patents, mostly in the
areas of automatic control, signal processing, and energy efficiency
technologies. Peter is serving on a number of boards and committees,
including the supervisory board of Metall Zug AG, Switzerland (since
2010), the foundation board of the ABB Jurgen Dormann Foundation for
Engineering Education (vice chairman, since 2008), the IEEE Control
Systems Award Committee (2008-2010), the IEC Market Strategy Board
(since 2008), the German Automation and Sensing Society (GMA Beirat,
2000-2007) and a number of other industry and industry-academic boards
and councils.